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Flying cars and porno phones (yes, really)
Feb. 2nd, 2007 08:21 amSource: Defence Tech  British SAS troops are expanding the functionality of their WASP micro-spy planes by loading them with C4. The US Air Force, meanwhile, plans to go one better by using a swarm of them to attack vehicles or structures. |
Source: National Post Telus is the first phone company to offer access to pornographic videos and pictures as part of their cell phone service. Only in Canada'r, eh? Pity. |
Source: SlashDot  Apparently Google maps pixelates out facilities that are considered "high risk. For example, the Operational Nuclear Research facility at the University of Massachusetts shows up as a blur. Here's a project: see if you can find any other pixelated sites. |
Source: ABC News  An Israeli inventor has a novel idea for getting the flying car out of science fiction and into regular use: use them for emergency vehicles. They key, he says, is that a flying car (or equivalent) has the maneuverability of a helicopter but the rotors are enclosed so are less prone to damage. This makes them, and in particular his design, better suited to situations like saving people from the top of burning skyscrapers and saving those trapped behind enemy lines. The only drawback is that the rotors are smaller so these vehicles use 50% more fuel than a traditional helicopter. There is more information in his vehicle here. |
Source: PhysOrg  Although it may be contrary to logic, making polymer nanofibers thinner may actually make them stronger. Specifically, at a diameter about 100 times thinner than a human hair these fibers suddenly become much stiffer. If they could be mass produced at this diameter, the fibers could be used to make much stronger fabrics that are thinner and lighter than possible today. |
